

Abre los ojos
Spain • Spanish • 1997 • 1h 57m
A dazzling science-fiction thriller circling around Hitchcockian themes of double identities and obsession, the sophomore feature from Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar (THE OTHERS) is a stylistically and intellectually exhilarating puzzle that inspired the Tom Cruise remake VANILLA SKY. Wealthy, handsome César (Eduardo Noriega) seems to have everything—until he finds himself in a psychiatric facility, his face disfigured from a car accident, and at the center of a strange existential mystery involving two women (Penélope Cruz and Najwa Nimri).